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ARCHITECTURE (more)
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August 23, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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Architecture – Spanish style 2
Toledo was not in my list of must-see places. My dad, who is also an architect, convinced me to go there, see the architecture and spend at least a day there. If the daddy says you have to, then I -
Architecture – Spanish style 1
After a week long art and architectural feast in Spain, I have a lot to share; from Goya to Picasso, from Santiago Calatrava to Antonio Gaudi! Let’s start with Madrid, the capital. Normally, capital cities are too stiff and bureaucraticAugust 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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INTERIORS (more)
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Best dirty secret of NY
One of the best dirty secrets of New York is “Burger Joint”. It is not easy to find this “joint”. Once you locate the Le Parker Meridien close to the Central Park, head directly to the entry, pass the reception,June 25, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
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Miniature Rooms Company
You might re-call my blog entry – Henry Kupjack’s Miniature Rooms. Here is another one. Robert Off is the owner of Miniature Rooms Company, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rooms are not reproduction of existing rooms. They are the imagination ofSeptember 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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MoodSpace
MoodSpace design and implement visual ambiance using an exclusively patented art form that combines canvas art and computer controlled LED lighting allowing the artwork to subtly change and shift as you view it. All art and design are created byFebruary 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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URBAN DESIGN (more)
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Leave the Alps alone
When you say Switzerland, the first thing that will come to my mind is the Alps, beside the chocolate, watches, and the banks of course! Now here is the bad news…September 28, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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House is an island
Developers have turned a house into an island in China after the owner refused to move out. The villa now stands alone in a 30ft deep man-made pit in Chongqing city, reports Jinbao Daily. The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate CompanyMarch 16, 2007 | 2 comments | View Post
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Not everything stays in Vegas
Fireworks go off seconds before the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. It was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion mega resort complex, Echelon Place. If it isn’tMarch 13, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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TECHNOLOGY (more)
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What’s new in 2008!
Happy New Year everyone! I have started my new year with new innovations in technology. The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place January 7-10, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a record 1.85 million net square feet ofJanuary 13, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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Samsung SS700
Yanko Design recently featured the Samsung SS700, a sexy 7.3-megapixel camera with an LCD display on one side and a built-in kick-stand and lens on the other. When you are done taking photos, you can simply slide the display upAugust 8, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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New Sony Design
“Do what has never been done before. “Always stay one step ahead.” These expressions have underscored our corporate philosophy since the very beginning, and have always represented the backbone of Sony’s design philosophy of “Building high-performance, easy-to-use, beautiful products withJuly 19, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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GREEN DESIGN (more)
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Earth Hour
I am sure most of you already know about the Earth Hour, and have seen Google‘s site in black. Today ArkitecTrue encourages everyone to join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turningMarch 29, 2008 | 2 comments | View Post
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The Concrete House
Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers call a “commitment to living sustainably”. With renewable energy systems, a green roof, -
The Energy Saving Adapters
The Energy Saving Adapters – EDF – by Gilles Belles not only look good but have some smarts behind them too. The standby mode of the electrical appliances can represent up to 10% of the electric consumption of housing (exceptJuly 5, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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EVENTS (more)
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Open City Istanbul
Three exhibitions curated by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay in cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR “Open City – Designing Coexistence”: Open City Forum – curated with Tim Rieniets Refuge – Critical projects and positions by architects,March 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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From the heart of Europe
You might remember one of my recent posts “Back from a different zone”. There is another change in my life and the time zone changed once again! This time I am writing you from the heart of Europe. Here IApril 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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Events at the Center for Architecture for July 14th – 21st
Monday, 07/14/2008, 5:30–8:00pm Designs for Living: Historic Buildings – Back to the Future Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place The theme Architecture: Designs for Living is intended to represent the broad range of building typologiesJuly 13, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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The Circle – Zurich Flughafen
I love my Flughafen, aka airport. Noooo, I am not crazy, or totally lost my mind. Keep reading please, and you will agree. Do you know how many times it saved my life on Sundays? No one wants to start the Sunday with a sentence such as “Ooppsss, no eggs for breakfast honey!” or “Ahhh [...]
March 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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The City of Dreams Pavilion Competition
January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for [...]
January 20, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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Architects at the end of 2009
Another year is almost over. How did we, architects, do in the last decade? Did we accomplish our objectives? Did we give anything back to the society? Or did we all get sucked up in the “system”? Here is a link from Los Angeles Times written by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. I found it quite [...]
December 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Architecture & Design Film Festival
The first film festival celebrating the creative spirit of architecture and design will be held on September 24-27, 2009 in Waitsfield, Vermont during the height of fall colors. An exciting selection of films, including feature-length films, documentaries and shorts will engage the audience with how architects and designers think, work and create. The films profile [...]
September 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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Top of the Grossmünster
Climbing first the carved stone staircase and then the wooden steps took me all the way up to one of the Grossmünster’s twin towers. The 360 view from the top was magnificent. The whole Zurich was under your feet. On every turn you would see another landmark such as the Fraumünster, St. Peterskirche, Limmat, Zurich [...]